英語教練訂正作業指導

1. 檔名確實呈現以利管理

學員作業檔以及英語教練訂正檔都要呈現正確檔名。學員作業檔名就在作業文本頁面的左上角,例如E2STC1-1。教練訂正檔名是(作業檔名+空格+教練代號+R),例如E2STC1-1 SR,這樣可以清楚地在資料夾裡檢視訓練課程的每一項作業已經完成及訂正完成檔名前後同時呈現。

2. 錄音作業訂正說明

(1) 工具:

英語教練訂正作業時應該要使用電腦、麥克風及耳機,提升訂正聲音品質,可自行選用自己擅長使用的工具及APP完成訂正作業,以下為超凡遠距建議使用的APP:

  • 訂正錄音作業需使用聲音編輯軟體,建議採用Lexis Audio Editor付費版,或Audacity
  • (a) Lexis Audio Editor操作較迅速,免費版即可以操作wav、flac、m4a、aac、wma格式,但若要輸出MP3檔,必須用付費版,價格約NT$100。請在Windows的APP Store付費下載
  • (b) Audacity完全免費(點此網頁選擇作業系統下載),功能比Lexis Audio Editor強大許多,若只是訂正作業,操作上稍微多一兩道手續,但也不難克服。

(2) STC作業:

本作業主要幫助學員提升閱讀理解力,因為是輸出中文,所以英語教練務必確定學員翻譯正確,措辭合乎邏輯,要求的標準必須高,但不必字字計較,要以整體邏輯合理為重。在訂正前,英語教練務必確認能夠完全理解作業內容。必要時可以參考超凡遠距參考檔。英語教練要提醒學員的常見錯誤:

  • 按照英文句型結構翻譯,而不是按照中文句型結構翻譯,否則會導致中文輸出內容有時候令人難以聽懂。
  • 學員在翻譯時常常未看完整句就翻譯,導致語意不通順,因為英文句子中出現在句子後面的意義元素,通常要在中文句子的前面就要呈現。
  • 學員常常沒有注意翻譯中的句子與前方句子的關係,以至於句意不連貫,或用詞不一致。要提醒學員注重整體感,才能有流暢翻譯。

(3) STE作業:

本作業主要幫助學員提升英語口說能力,由於輸出的是英文,這對大多數的學生來講是一個比較大的挑戰,錯誤較多,因此不需要有錯誤就訂正, 但是必須要把握幾個重點,每項作業挑出3~5個重點錯誤提供建議即可。

  • 基礎學員要著重咬字發音的完整、基本時態觀念,尤其不規則動詞過去式的提醒、正確句型結構提醒,也就是主詞、動詞、受詞、介詞、片語副詞,務必熟練,學習子句的運用,但是不必求精準。
  • 初級學員要注重子句的運用,尤其形容詞子句對於口說能力的提升有非常大的幫助,一定要讓學員具備形容詞子句的概念,但是不必精細。幫助學員了解比較長的中文句子不一定要在一個英文句子裡面納入所有的意義元素,可以利用兩個中文短句子來完成。
  • 中級學員要著重用字是否正確,提醒學員不需要因為英文字典裡面的中文定義而有錯誤的判斷。造句的時候,不用執著於用很深奧的字,越簡單越好。以流暢、正確為優先原則。
  • 中級以上學員需盡可能把中文句子當中所有的意義元素包含到英文句子當中,整個作業必須要以流暢、合邏輯、能夠被聽眾聽懂為優先原則。結構愈簡潔愈好。

(3) CI逐步口譯:

本作業是聽跟說的雙重訓練,作業目的在於提升學員聽力及口說能力。訂正重點在於提醒學員是否將聽進來的資訊正確且合乎邏輯的說出去,不必100%重新輸出,但是必須至少60%以自己的方式,合乎邏輯的輸出,且聽眾能夠聽懂。提醒重點如下:

  • 學員不可把聽到的聲音逐字逐句地記錄下來,然後用朗讀來錄音,這樣會變成複製性輸出,而不是發自內心的創造。學員應該練習邊聽邊做筆記,然後依據筆記的內容來做輸出。所以輸出內容以簡單、流暢、合邏輯、掌控重點為優先。
  • 學員的文法訂正為次要,但必須提醒學員善用形容詞子句、名詞子句、及副詞子句做正確表達。但是若是不用子句也能正確表達是可以接受的。
  • 學員解讀錯誤出現,英語教練必須加以訂正,觀察是否訓練層級太高。可以提醒學員做完筆記之後,先用中文輸出一次,檢視自己中文輸出是否合乎邏輯,若是合乎邏輯,再用英文輸出。

3. WT寫作作業訂正說明

寫作WT及TW的目的在於提升學員使用文法、單字、片語的精準度,英語教練訂正的時候 盡可能嚴格,以幫助學員在最短的時間之內建立使用單字文法的正確觀念,以及句型結構的精準度。
寫作作業WT筆譯或TW主題寫作的訂正,通常以兩種方式來進行:

  • 第一種就是將學員的作業列印出來,然後以手寫的方式訂正,訂正完之後拍照,然後再上傳到學員的雲端資料夾。
  • 第二種方式就是利用電腦以及手寫板作業,這種作業方式可以在電腦上使用Windows 10小畫家,或另行下載Smooth Draw,將學員WT或TW作業圖檔在小畫家或Smooth draw開啟,然後以電子筆在手寫板做訂正。

英語教練可以再利用輔助APP加快作業速度。利用Google的語音辨識系統,使用麥克風將大量文字訂正內容先用語音辨識系統取得文字稿,再複製貼到小畫家或Smooth draw上。

🐭老鼠會

Ponzi Scheme

Key Words

  1. scheme陰謀
  2. lure引誘
  3. maintain 保持
  4. illusion 假象;幻想
  5. contribute貢獻
  6. asset資產
  7. notorious聲名狼藉的

老鼠會這個名稱代表一個詐騙手法,這個詐騙手法在英文成為Ponzi Scheme,而Ponzi就是發名這個詐騙手法的人。

龐氏騙局是一種詐騙手法,引誘投資客,同時讓更早期的投資客能夠獲得利潤。然而提供這些利潤的資金是來自於比較晚期的投資客。

這樣的詐騙手法導致受害者相信,他們所獲得的利潤是來自於產品的銷售,或者其他正常的管道。受害者不知道其他的投資者才是資金的來源,以及他們利潤的來源。

龐氏騙局能夠造成一種企業賺錢的假象。只要有新的投資客挹注新資金,加上大部分投資者不要求全額退款,而且仍然相信他們被告知擁有的不存在資產。

這種騙局是以1920年代聲名狼藉的Charles Ponzi 命名的,因為他就是用的這樣子的手法進行詐騙。

Ponzi scheme or a Ponzi game is a form of fraud that lures investors and pays profits to earlier investors with funds from more recent investors. 

The scheme leads victims to believe that profits are coming from product sales or other means, and they are not aware that other investors are the source of funds, or their profits. A Ponzi scheme can maintain the illusion of a money-making business as long as new investors contribute new funds, and as long as most of the investors do not demand full repayment and still believe in the non-existent assets they are told to own.

The scheme is named after Charles Ponzi, who became notorious for using the technique in the 1920s.

🌳說故事的樹

Trees That Tell Stories

Sacred trees are not only found in Taiwan. The book Wise Trees show you the photoes of sacred trees all around the world. Photographers Len Jenshel and Diane Cook spent 3 years making Wise Trees.

The first photographs were the blossoming “Survivor Tree." The tree had been pulled out of the ruins of the World Trade Center weeks after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. The tree was nursed back to health and re-planted a decade later at what is now the National September 11 Memorial.

In Varanasi, India, a sweet shopwas built around a tree considered too holy to cut down. People there use the tree’s leaves to repel insects, the sap for stomach pain and the twigs to brush their teeth.

In Naunde, Mozambique, a huge mango tree serves as the village center. Under its branches, people tell stories, make marriage arrangements and resolve land disputes.

At a temple in Varanasi, India, people pray to the monkey god Hanuman, who is believed to be embodied in this tree. Devotees leave offerings, rub vermilion paste into the tree’s bark and wrap thread around the tree’s base.

In West Bali, a road runs straight through a sacred banyan tree. Engineers insisted the land the tree grew on was the best place for the road, so worshippers prayed for forgiveness for the giant hole.

In the picture, Mexican children admire this cypress on a school field trip. The tree is said to be the widest (138 feet in circumference) and oldest (1,200 to 3,000 years) of its kind. Authorities diverted a major highway to spare the tree and dug a deeper well because of disappearing swampland.

To remember the children killed at this tree by Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge, visitors hang bracelets on the bark — woven threads, embroidered cloth, leather and beads.

This 170-foot-tall tree is found in the remote Forest of New Zealand and is sacred to the Maori people. The tree is called “Tane Mahuta,” which is translated as Lord of the Forest.

訓練流程

第一:決定訓練的層級 (小五基礎~不限年齡高級訓練課程)。

  1. 請填寫學員資料表,提供訓練必須相關資訊。盡可能填寫gmail帳號,然後使用此帳號的Google雲端硬碟。
  2. 依照各種檢定考試成績選擇,請參考訓練層級對照表
  3. 參考官網的訓練層級頁面,找到適合的層級,或聯絡我們由專業人員提供訓練層級建議。
  4. 依照個人需求選擇個人化訓練套餐或與英語教練通話以協助學員決定訓練需求。

第二:設立雲端資料夾。

  1. 我們購置大量的Google雲端空間,只要有gmail帳號,就有免費15G空間可使用,足以完成超凡遠距的所有訓練項目,找到Google雲端硬碟非常簡單,在智慧型手機或電腦上以Gmail帳號登入,然後在應用程式中找到彩色三角形的雲端硬碟圖示後點入即可。
  2. 確立Google雲端硬碟存在後,將註冊電子郵件地址Gmail傳送給超凡遠距。

第三:電子檔訓練課程建立

  1. 超凡上傳訓練課程電子檔到共用雲端資料夾,包含PDF課件、CI音檔以及STE參考音檔等。
  2. 確認訓練費用金額,將訓練費用匯入匯款資訊中的指定帳號。
  3. 超凡快遞作業紙本至指定地址。BN請學員務必以紙本作業,才能達到較佳訓練效果。

第四:學員開始訓練

  1. 學員確認錄音APP,如無熟悉APP,建議使用超級錄音器。(超級錄音器簡單操作提示),或ocenaudio
  2. 學員開始,訂定每周作業時間至少兩次,每次完成兩次作業。
  3. 學員開始錄音作業,完成錄音後在錄音程式APP按下共享圖示,找到Google雲端,並選擇新增到學員名下資料夾,勿放入子資料夾。傳送後確定作業名稱是否註記清楚,例如E3STC2,可在錄音APP或Google更改。
  4. 學員開始寫作,(1) 手寫作業(WT筆譯或TW主題式寫作),請於作業正上方、光線充足條件下拍照,拍照後檢查是否清晰,並將邊緣切齊後上傳,或觀看教學影片。(2) 電腦Word作業,行距1.5、字體12,完成後請將Word轉Jpg圖片(點選此連結),或利用Windows內建程式先轉成PDF,然後再將PDF再轉成Jpg(點選此連結 )。

第五:英語教練提供改善建議

  1. BN英語教練於三個工作天內訂正完成(例假日為非工作天),並提供書面或語音改善建議。改善建議(點此看實例)
  2. 聽完改善建議後,請學員將作業及改善建議移動至改善建議資料夾歸檔。
  3. 學員依照層級安排每周線上全英文主題討論,練習發表想法。

學員作業時可利用作業小幫手影片及測驗等學習資源輔助學習者,提供有關文法及有關單字的學習,並將加入各種模擬考試的練習,幫助學習者應付考試。

🎈大學及職場人士可以進行ESP訓練,也就是特定領域英語學習。點選參考實例
🎈中學生可以一般知識性文進行訓練,擴大背景知識,點選參考實例
🎈小學生可以一般趣味性文章,學習用符號或圖像製作大綱,訓練創意。點選參考實例

⭐台灣人一年用於英語學習的花費超過500億(財經報導),其中許多人都經歷數次重新學習,也就是經過一段沒有成效的學習後又重新開始,主要原因在於沒有進行輸出訓練。超凡遠距訓練以實作為主,完成一個訓練作業只需100~150元,訓練費用依照層級不同從5,000~8,000之間,學習不必花大筆金錢卻因為無效而放棄。但輸出需要創造,創造必然掙扎,但只要堅強跟英語教練配合,一定有成果,一定能節省大量金錢及時間。支持我們的理念,請分享訓練方案給需要的人。謝謝!

AI新聞主播初登場

AI News Anchor Making Debut in China

AI顯然已經在幫助人類學英文😣,AI也藉此自我學習,但是人類要跟機器不同,人可以做長篇幅的表達,並且在表達的過程當中隨機應變,也能投入更多的情感,這是Beyond Norm全文輸入輸出訓練的目標:帶學英文孩子到演講台🎁。
Beyond Norm全文輸入輸出訓練官網及學習社團,或索取資訊:
(1) 臉書學習社團:https://www.facebook.com/groups/beyondnorm/
(2) 臉書粉絲專頁: https://www.facebook.com/bnenglishschool/

This video shows AI New也s Anchor Making Debut in China

China’s Xinhua News Agency has billed the technology as the “world’s first artificial intelligence (AI) news anchor.

The anchor can learn from live broadcasting videos by himself and can read texts. Critics disagree about whether the technology appears natural. You can decide for yourself here with this male English-speaking anchor.

    It was designed by Xinhua jointly with the Chinese search engine company Sogou.com. The wire service added it wasn’t clear when the technology would actually go into use. Xinhua points to what it sees as certain advantages of an AI anchor, saying it can work 24 hours a day on its official website and various social media platforms, reducing news production costs and improving efficiency.

But some experts are skeptical about the kind of news-watching experience an AI news anchor offers.AI anchor is evidently devoid of decision making and processing skills and cannot offer the emotional element given by a real journalist.

Facing a future full of artificial intelligence, what we should know is never new. That is you must use your creativity and improve the social skills which take time, patience, and natural intelligence to complete.

💀電子煙是什麼?

What is Electronic Cigarette?

Key Word

  1. vaporize (v.) 汽化;蒸發
  2. solution (n.) 溶液
  3. inhale (v.) 吸入
  4. sensation (n.) 整體感覺
  5. activate (v.) 啟動
  6. extract (v.) 提煉;萃取
  7. base (n.) 主要成分(基底)

電子菸是能夠釋放出氣化尼古丁或非尼古丁讓使用者吸入的一種產品。電子菸的目的是提供使用者在沒有煙的情況下,有類似吸菸的強烈感覺。自從2004年上市以來,吸電子菸幾經是美國青少年最普遍的抽菸方式。使用電子煙的時候尼古丁的含量介於0到「極高」。

電子菸包含三個主要部分:(一) 電池:提供加熱器電力;(二) 感應器:吸氣能啟動加熱器;(三) 溶劑:又稱為「電子液體」,通常是菸草中萃取出來的尼古丁混合能產生味道的化學物質。

雖然市場上行銷上宣稱電子煙能夠幫助戒菸,只要將尼古丁含量減至最少,我們必須牢記,電子煙仍是以尼古丁為基礎的產品,只要是尼古丁就不安全。

An e-cigarette, or vaping, is a device that emits vaporized nicotine, or non-nicotine solutions, for the user to inhale. It aims to provide a similar sensation to inhaling tobacco smoke, without the smoke. “Vaping" is now the most popular form of tobacco use among teenagers in the U.S. since it first appeared in 2004. The nicotine content varies from zero to “extra-high”.

The device consists of three parts. (1) The battery powers the heating element. (2) The sensor activates the heater when the user sucks on the device. An LED may show when it is activated. (3) The solution, also known as e-liquid or e-juice, is made by extracting nicotine from tobacco and mixing it with a base for flavoring.

Although e-cigarettes have been marketed as a way to cut down on smoking by reducing the amount to the minimum, we must bear in mind that they are a nicotine-based product and no nicotine use is safe.

🦊父親囚禁六兒女等待世界末日

Siblings Locked by Father Waiting for End of Time

Key Word

  1. sibling(s) (n.) 兄弟姊妹;手足
  2. scruffy (a.) 邋遢的,不整潔的
  3. bewildered (a.) 迷惑的
  4. tip…off (v.) 密告…
  5. premises (n.) 房屋連同地基
  6. detain (v.) 拘留
  7. seclude (v.) 使…不與…接觸

荷蘭警方發現有6個成年兄弟姊妹,在過去好幾年的時間,都被關在一個與外界完全隔絕的農場裡的秘密房間裡「等待世界末日來臨」。囚禁他們的人是他們的父親,這六個兄弟姊妹年紀介於16到25歲,跟58歲的父親住在一起,跟外界完全沒有接觸。

他們之所以被發現是因為其中一個成員,也就是年紀最長的25歲長髮男子,衣衫襤褸,走進一家咖啡廳,一臉困惑,說他已經九年沒有到外面。根據咖啡店老闆的說法,很明顯地那位男子對於他身在哪裡或者正在做甚麼完全沒有概念,該男子說他逃出來了,非常需要幫助。

警方接獲密報後搜索農場,農場的主人不配合,目前被拘留當中。這6個該家庭成員在一個密閉空間被找到後,現正受到照護中。這幾個兄弟姊妹顯然生活在隱密地窖中,靠著隱密的農園中的蔬菜及動物維生。

Dutch police discovered six young adult siblings who had spent years being locked away by their father in a secret room in an isolated farmhouse “waiting for the end of time". The siblings, aged 16 to 25, who lived with their 58-year-old father had no contact with the outside world.

They were found when one of the family members, a 25-year-old man with long hair had come into a café, looking scruffy and bewildered. He said he had not been outside for nine years. “You could see he had no idea where he was or what he was doing," according to the cafe owner. “He said he had run away and that he urgently needed help."

Police officers searched the farm after being tipped off. The owner of the farm did not want to cooperate and he was currently detained. The six family members were being cared for after being found in a “closed-off space". The siblings had apparently lived in a hidden cellar and survived on vegetables and animals tended in a secluded garden.

⭐台灣驕傲:兩景點列名世界綠景觀

Proud of Taiwan! 2 sites rank among top green destinations

Key Words

  1. site (n.) 景點
  2. rank (v.) 列名
  3. destination (n.) 目的地
  4. sustainable (v.) 永續的
  5. circulation (n.) 循環
  6. generate (v.) 生產
  7. revitalize (v.) 獲得新生

兩個台灣景點列名世界100綠景觀,Green Destination 是一個提倡永續觀光的非營利組織,該組織選擇「日月潭」以及「東北角暨宜蘭海岸國家風景區」為綠景觀。

Green Destination 強調日月潭利用水循環來發電, 此外,經由完成電動車系統、電動船及自行車道,可以預期到生態旅遊在這個地區將會持續成長。

而東北角暨宜蘭海岸國家風景區已經連續4年獲選為綠景觀,這個地區是以山海的景觀聞名,並且展現台灣當地文化,草嶺古隧道即為文化景點之一,該隧道在封閉20年之後於2008年重新開放。

2 sites rank among top green destinations

Two sites in Taiwan were named among the world’s top 100 green destinations by Green Destination, a nonprofit organization that promotes sustainable tourism. They are Nantou County’s Sun Moon Lake and the Northeast and Yilan Coast National Scenic Area.

Green Destination highlighted Sun Moon Lake’s effort that uses the circulation of water to generate electricity. In addition, by completing a cable car system, electric boats and cycling paths, it is expected that green tourism there will continue to progress

The Northeast and Yilan Coast National Scenic Area, which has made the top 100 green destinations list four years in a row, was noted for offering tourists mountain and ocean views, as well as showcasing Taiwanese culture. One of the cultural attractions is the Old Caoling Tunnel, which was revitalized as a cycle track in 2008 after being sealed for 20 years.

🤡小丑,這部電影!

The Movie, Joker!

Key Words
1. arch nemesis勢均力敵的對手
2. villain惡棍
3. inopportune 時機不對的
4. identify with 認同
5. excruciating 極端痛苦的
6. disparage貶低

如果你對待一個貧窮、心理狀況不穩定的孤獨者像垃圾一樣,你會得到甚麼?答案就是小丑。小丑是蝙蝠俠勢均力敵的對手,是超級大壞蛋,是個博取同情、令人毛骨悚然的年輕人,他沒有辦法保護他自己免於欺負。

這部電影的背景是一個非常混亂的年代,有錢人跟社會其他人差距極大的年代。小丑有一種奇怪的疾病,他常在不適當的時機爆笑,然後因此被毒打一頓。看電影的我們忍不住認同小丑這個角色。在電影裡,當他的脫口秀表演失敗,我們跟他一樣遭受極大的痛苦,這是人的本能,我們希望他能夠成功,因為我們所有人都經歷過夢想失敗。

小丑不是超級英雄電影。雖然整個故事貶低仇恨及不良善,但卻也不盡然鼓勵愛及善良。

What do you get when you treat a poor, mentally unstable loner like trash? The answer is Batman’s arch nemesis, the Joker, the super villain, a sympathetic and creepy young man, who is not able to protect himself from others who pick on him.

The movie is set at a chaotic time when the gulf between the rich and the rest of society is enormous. The Joker, Arthur, is suffering from some mysterious medical condition which causes him to erupt into manic laughter at the most inopportune moments to be beat up by thugs. As moviegoers, we cannot help but identify with Arthur. We suffer with him in the excruciating scenes when his comedy routines fall. It is a natural instinct to want him to succeed because we all experience the moment in our life.

Joker is not a super hero movie. Although the story disparages hate and unkindness, it doesn’t exactly promote love and kindness.

🚍英國驚見貨櫃內39屍體

39 deaths were found in a container in Britain

Key Words:

  1. container (n.) 貨櫃
  2. investigation (n.) 調查
  3. suspicion (n.) 懷疑
  4. manslaughter (n.) 殺人
  5. traffic/ trafficking (v.) 偷渡
  6. circumstance (n.) 情形;條件
  7. speculate (n.) 預測
  8. coroner’s (n.) 驗屍官

10月23號,英格蘭東部的Essex一輛貨櫃車中發現39具屍體。整個事件正朝向謀殺的方向進行調查。包括司機在內已經有4人被逮捕,這四人除了被懷疑殺害這些人,並且密謀將這些人偷渡至英國。警方正在抽絲剝繭,勾勒出這整個驚人事件過程。

火車上的有一些人是來自於越南,然而警方目前尚無法預測所有人的國籍。根據警方的說法,這些受害者身上的身分證明文件非常少,警方只能夠從這些人身上的刺青、胎記、疤痕已確定可能身分。

這些屍體是由救護車人員所發現,然而尚不知道這些人如何獲得密報。所有的屍體正在經由驗屍官查證死亡原因中,警方會試著確定每個人的身分。 ~待續~

The dead bodies of 39 people were found in a lorry container in Essex in eastern England on 23 October. A murder investigation has been launched. Four people, including the driver, have been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and trafficking people. The police are still working to piece together the circumstances of this horrific event.

Some of those on board may have been from Vietnam. However, the police cannot speculate on the nationality at this time. According to the police, there were very few identification papers found among the victims and they can only look for tattoos, marks or scars that could help the identification process.

The bodies were discovered by ambulance staff. However, it is not yet known who gave them the tip-off. All of the dead will undergo a coroner‘s examination to establish the cause of death. The police will then attempt to identify each individual.

~to be continued~